Copy listed as first Philadelphia edition. Reprinted from the plates of James R. Osgood & Company and turned over to Rees Welsh & Co. after the suppression order in 1882
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On verso of t.p.: Copyright 1881 by Walt Whitman. Sherman & Co., printers, Philadelphia
On cover: Walt Whitman
Engraved portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer
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Myerson, J. Walt Whitman
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Whitman copy: Printed slip tipped to the front fly leaf recto: "Ready in September, Whitman's prose works. Specimen days and Collect, price $2.00. Leaves of grass, price $2.00."
Whitman copy: Bound in original dark mustard cloth with lettering in gilt on upper cover and spine. Mottled blue lining paper